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8* Pretty much all of the preschoolers' and children's shows do this when it comes to teaching how brushing your teeth after every meal is fun, or always eating the vegetables, or washing your hands before eating or after going to the bathroom, etc., and making songs about it, so that kids actually start to like it.
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10* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''[='=]s use of this trope is par for the course.
11** "Blood Under the Skin" opens with Finn and Jake having a dramatic show-down with a bug monster... except it's actually just a normal-sized ladybug that they're trying to shoo out of their treehouse.
12** Special mention must be made of '''SUPER ULTIMATE HIGH-FIVE GO!!!''' from "Five Short Graybles". Finn and Jake decide that, as cool as their high-fives get, they can make them even better, and this eventually culminates in the two of them catapulting hands first across a good chunk of the land of Ooo. They're flying for most of the episode, and they finally connect, entirely by coincidence, over a talent competition which they promptly win because the stunt was just ''that cool''.
13** "Five Short Graybles" also has Princess Bubblegum using a combination of sorcery and mad science to make "the most perfect sandwich that has ever existed or ever will exist within the confines of space-time".
14* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9oO0nqVGQ#t=139s]]
15-->'''Dr. Weird''': Gentlemen! Behold! The thermo... stat! ''(epic zoom in)''\
16'''Steve''': That's been there.\
17'''Dr. Weird''': Observe... as I... '''adjust the heat'''! ''(maniacal laughter)''\
18''(beat)''\
19'''Steve''': Is it on?\
20'''Dr. Weird''': You... tell me! ''(maniacal laughter)'' [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Oh, oh, WAIT!]] ''[[IncendiaryExponent (bursts into flames)]]'']]
21* Mildly spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
22-->'''Sokka''': I do believe it's my turn. I'm going to spend my vacation... IN THE LIBRARY!!!
23** Azula also employs the trope a couple of times during the third-season BeachEpisode by taking the [[SeriousBusiness same approach]] to beach volleyball and flirting with boys that she takes to world domination. It involves [[ElementalPowers fire]], [[ScreamingWarrior loud declarations]], and ''[[StuffBlowingUp explosions]]''.
24--->'''Azula''': We have defeated you for all time! You will never rise from the ashes of your shame and humiliation! ... [cheerfully] Well, that was fun!
25--->'''Azula''': That's a ''sharp'' outfit, Chan. Careful; you might puncture the hull of an empire-class Fire Nation battleship, leaving ''thousands'' to ''drown'' at ''sea''! ... Because... it's so sharp.
26*** From the same episode, we have DisturbedDoves going along with Zuko ''[[ShirtlessScene taking off his shirt]]''.
27** "The Ember Island Players" was [[TheAbridgedSeries a recap of the series]] [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs as a play]], and they represented bending with ''streamers''. It actually looks cooler than you'd think (choreography and special effects were about [[StylisticSuck all they had going]]). There's also the fact that most scenes parodied are accompanied by the appropriate music (ex. the recreation of [[spoiler:Aang getting hit by Azula's lightning]] has the same dramatic music playing despite how completely ''un''dramatic [[BadBadActing their performance was]]).
28** There's also when they were invading the Earth Kingdom palace and Sokka tried to kick down a big fancy door. He gives it a flying kick with a StockFootage-esque background... and the door doesn't budge an inch.
29** Sokka's Haiku Battle (which the background music made it seem more like a Rap Battle).
30* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' is doing this with ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Da90PI94w kickball]]''. The actual episode does not disappoint, ending with a ''Anime/DragonBallZ''-slash-''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''-esque final pitch.
31* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'': The episode ''Extra, Extra'' has [=CatDog=] delivering newspapers to the neighborhood. This is made awesome when [[TheSmartGuy Cat]] comes up with a complicated, well thought-out plan to avoid some dogs who were chasing them on their delivery route.
32* In ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E4GarbageBallet Garbage Ballet]]", Owen has a system to help keep Central Park trash-free, Birdie describes Owen's system as a "Garbage Ballet", which leads to the titular song where the park workers and garbagemen do ballet dancing while transporting the garbage.
33%%* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' is entirely built on this trope.
34* Behold what ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' called "The Dryer Channel", something so cool that it's beating ''Coming Attractions'' in the ratings. It's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like.]] Even better, according to Duke, not only do people watch it, they actually send it money.
35* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', mainly in the episode "Identity Crisis". Super Danny seems to permanently have a breeze around him, even when he's standing still.
36** "This looks like a job for...''the vacuum cleaner!''" (Followed by him cleaning the room by ''riding'' the vacuum cleaner.)
37** "I'm more than alright! I'm ''DANNY FENTON!''" (Cue dramatic lighting.)
38** Speaking of which, the aforementioned Zim ''Globs of Doom'' scene takes place in, yes, Amity Park.
39* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has a deadly training course set in his kitchen to turn the simple act of making breakfast into a lethal ordeal. Complete with an auto-targeting sentry gun that fires Froot Loops.
40* ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'' does this a ''lot''. The narrator in particular is prone to announcing utterly mundane or ludicrous events as if they're epic dramatic situations.
41-->''Lo, spring has come at last to the small, somewhat damp kingdom of Udrogoth, and spring means but one thing to a mighty barbarian hero such as Dave: '''[[SpringCleaningFever SPRING CLEANING!]]'''''
42* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''
43** In "An Ed Too Many," Jimmy goes {{Yandere}} when Sarah starts obsessing over Double D. He declares himself "a lone wolf looking for trouble," and proceeds to rip apart his teddy bear.
44** In "Know-It-All Ed", Edd [[NotSoAboveItAll gets uncharacteristically carried away]] firing off a makeshift Gatling gun made from "Canadian squirt guns".
45--->'''Edd:''' Oh yes, I feel it! I ''feel the adrenaline, Eddy-baby!!''\
46'''Eddy:''' Double D! Double D! Relax, would ya? It's a toy, from Canada. Geez, how embarrassing...
47** In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS3E9WillWorkForEd Will Work for Ed]]", Rolf explains to Ed his first task as the farm "nincompoop": PeelingPotatoes
48--->'''Rolf:''' ''Behold, the potato!'' Bow to this fruit of the earth, then ''peel it'' like it was the last task of your miserable life!!
49* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' had that episode where Peter and friends became ''Series/TheATeam''. They fixed a chair complete with heroic music playing.
50** The one where a disinfection work turns into a major, ''dramatic'' action scene, with every trope played straight for maximum hilarity.
51* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' was ''built'' on this trope. Middle school is SeriousBusiness.
52* Done occasionally in ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', normally to emphasize or {{lampshade|Hanging}} how low-key the goings-on are for a show where fantastic beings spring to life on a whim.
53* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''I Dated A Robot'', when Leela remarks that the most ordinary things (like riding a T-Rex or blowing up a planet) seem awesome to a 20th century kid like Fry.
54** Episode "Less Than Hero" had the villainous Zookeeper demand his tamed crow to take the Quantum Gemerald from the Planet Express crew in a grandiose fashion, which amounted to swooping over three feet and taking it back. Fry {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this trope: "That seemed unnecessary."
55** From "Prisoner of Benda", we have Professor Farnsworth's declaration "I'm afraid we need to use... ''math!''", complete with dramatic zoom-in and music.
56** One of the segments of the episode ''Reincarnation'' spoofs Anime's over the top [[TransformationSequence Transformation Sequences]]. Hermie's sequence involves: his desk transforming into a suit of samurai armor, jumping down a hole that opens in the floor, landing in the cockpit of a waiting helicopter, said helicopter flying off, finally landing and the helicopter then transforming into... another desk, which he proceeds to do paperwork at.
57** The Season 7 opener had Farnsworth summon the entire Planet Express crew with a BatSignal so they could look at his new soda machine.
58* The characters of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' always take dramatic poses before petrifying at sunrise. But if you were going to pose for a statue that potentially hundreds of people would see for the next 12 hours, wouldn't you strike the most impressive pose possible? And if you could get a do-over every 24 hours, why not do it better?
59** Plus, they have an interest in maintaining their camouflage, and preserving a threatening image.
60* From the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Irrational Treasure": "We're gonna have to ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur4y12RXylQ break in]]''."
61* Various characters in ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' made frequent use of the trope, in conjunction with stylized expressions and loud vocalizations. The very first instance would have to be:
62-->'''Professor Membrane''': Not now, son! I'm making ''(large field of electricity crackles)''... ''toast''!
63** Also the episode title (rendered in foot-high solid lettering, one word at a time, while spinning through space) -- "ZIM EATS WAFFLES"
64** And also the episode "Germs", where Zim embarks on the vital and life-threatening mission of... ''cleaning his house''.
65** The one episode where Dib gets powers, and showed off how awesome it was by sliding from the 2nd floor to the first, ''outside of his house'', threw toast, butter, and orange juice in the air, all forming to make breakfast, which he also ate in the air.
66** Another Zim example, this one from a crossover: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x1JIAcbCbs this scene]] in ''[[VideoGame/NicktoonsUnite Nicktoons: Globs of Doom]]'' has him bragging about mundane tools as if they were killer weapons of destruction (complete with fanfare):
67--->'''Zim''': Eh, this squeaky toy will do you no good. You need the plunger '''''[[DoomyDoomsOfDoom OF DOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!]]'''''
68** "''A room...'''with a moose!'''''" First, Dib starts to let off a BigNo before it sinks in, and when Zim does a demonstration of what the Moose can do, [[spoiler: (eat walnuts)]] we get dramatic closeups of it doing so with Dib reacting like it's the worst thing imaginable.
69** FBI Warning of Doom. Zim tries to return a movie, while a crazed mall cop tries to stop him. (Because it was after hours.) The whole ordeal ends with the cop trying to stop Zim with a zombie army. However, it can all be summed up with this one line:
70---> '''Video Clerk''': If that movie isn't in our drop box by the time we open tomorrow, you're gonna have to paaaaaaayyyyy..... '' '''late fees!''' ''
71** There was one episode where GIR threw a sandwich at Dib's head. He threw it so hard that it sent Dib ''flying through the air and crashing through the wall of the nearest building.''
72* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In the episode "Only a Dream", Franchise/{{Batman}} made the act of [[http://youtu.be/0reMYQSXB0g ordering a coffee]] look awesome.
73* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' as a show in general is basically the embodiment of the trope. Every episode is about the characters trying to play a simple game, which culminates in explosions, [[ChaseScene car chases]], supernatural adventures and the like.
74* Half the point of ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowski'' centers around this.
75* John Redcorn on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is frequently introduced with blowing leaves and a signature musical leitmotif in the style of a MagicalNativeAmerican, but he's usually just going about his mundane business.
76** There is the episode where Hank is constipated. Probably the only episode of any show that can make ''pooping'' a dramatic and climactic event that ends the episode on a ridiculously positive note. The climax: when Hank flushes, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Beethoven's 9th starts playing.]]
77* ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' gives us...[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPzv2l9Qb_0 The Lost and Found Box!]]
78* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'':
79** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PvJ1zBJ-us Daffy Duck: The Wizard]] is a HeavyMithril Power Ballad about Daffy doing incredibly mundane things like riding an escalator, blowing up a hot dog in a microwave, or crossing the street, juxtaposed with [[ArtShift lavishly-animated]] {{Imagine Spot}}s featuring him imagining himself as a powerful wizard doing fantastical versions of these things.
80** Quite a few Merrie Melodies on the show do this, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxu75V4HHAk Elmer Fudd making a grilled cheese sandwich]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3xDfYNCFBQ eating chicken and beans]].
81** [[https://youtu.be/cGU81GswrnE Long Eared Drifter]] takes the cake for making ''healthy eating'' as badass as humanly possible.
82* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'', a huge monstrous ogre-type tries to defeat Captain K'nuckles in a poker game with, as he puts it: "Pair of... TWOOOOOOOOOOSS!!" (He loses, naturally, with a pair of threes, no less).
83* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''. Coop makes the simple act of pushing a button awesome, by smashing it with his ''face''.
84** Also, the Context-Sensitive-Big-Red-Button that changes episode to episode. It's even changed ''twice'' in the ''same episode''.
85* ''WesternAnimation/MiddlemostPost'': As revealed in the "Travel" short, ''extreme recycling'' is a common pastime in the Greenwood region of Mt. Middlemost.
86* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHigh'': Frankie Stein makes gingerbread cookies in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebBcbfMzSro weirdest way ever]].
87* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
88** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 The second part of the season 2 premiere]] of gave us this line:
89--> "This is my book... and I'M GONNA READ IT!"
90** Pinkie Pie and Apple Bloom [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zag]] this trope in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie Call of the Cutie]]". Pinkie Pie's song about baking cupcakes makes it sound like the coolest thing ever, but when Apple Bloom tries her hoof at it...
91** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed "It's time for me to do what I do best - LECTURE HER!"]]
92** "[[ShoutOut As Celestia is my witness]], ''[[Film/GoneWithTheWind I will never go sisterless again!]]''"
93** From "Green Isn't Your Color": Pinkie Pie's gonna take an apple... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQnSdXh0syE and eat it.]]
94** Pinkie Pie as Chancellor Puddinghead in "Hearth's Warming Eve": "In the name of the earth ponies, I think I'm gonna name this new place... uh... DIRTVILLE!"
95** Granny Smith's preparations for Zap Apple Jam-making in "Family Appreciation Day", especially the scene where she acts like a drill sergeant towards a bunch of jam-jars.
96** In Hurricane Fluttershy, it is revealed that the Ponyville pegasi have a traditional event where they have to transport a large amount of water over a huge distance. How do they do this? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jttjBESI8pQ By creating a huge tornado.]]
97** In the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E3TooManyPinkiePies Too Many Pinkie Pies]]," this is subverted with watching paint dry. Spike even does a PassThePopcorn bit, but eats it all before anything exciting happens.
98** In the opening of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E11ThreesACrowd Three's a Crowd]]," Twilight Sparkle learns her sister-in-law Cadance is coming to visit for the weekend, while Fluttershy learns that she's been selected to help research the elusive [[MythologyGag Breezies]]. [[CloudCuckoolander Pinkie Pie]] proceeds to top this good news with "a flyer about a one-day sale on ''used patio furniture''!"
99** ''Westernanimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' gives us [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxhE2r59kD8 one of the most epic snack purchases from a vending machine history in fiction.]]
100* In ''WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever'', anything Astonomicat does other than sitting around is accompanied by dramatic music -- even performing a background check on a computer.
101* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' practically ''runs'' on this trope. For example, the episode "Tip of the Day" ended with a crowd song about ''[[WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet aglets]]'' (you know, those plastic things on the ends of a shoelace ([[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague their true purpose is sinister]]).
102** "Raging Bully": After accidentally causing Buford to drop ice cream on himself, Phineas is challenged to a duel, and the entire episode has them set up a boxing ring, going through a Rocky-style training montage... all for a thumb war, even with an overly excited commentator.
103** "Don't Even Blink" has Phineas and the gang perform a rock and roll song about watching their idea in case it disappears.
104** One episode features dramatic zooming and music whenever a character announces something they're going to do; one time there's nothing to actually zoom in on but a random patch of sky, forcing Ferb to jump in at the last moment.
105** From the movie we have a song about how everything, including blinking, breathing and sitting on a chair, is [[https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=-iSQSnSI-so better with Perry.]]
106** "Great Balls of Water" gives us Candace's "Extraordinary" song as she wonders what fun things she can do with Jeremy in place of just going to the mall. Almost all of the activities are run-of-the-mill, such as knitting, cooking, calculating, yoga, hula, jogging, meditating, shopping for a suitcase, or standing in a wheat field.
107** In "One Good Turn", turning to the side before someone is considered an insult in Stumblegimp.
108* Ninja Handyman, from ''WesternAnimation/PlanetSketch'', solves mundane problems and, [[RuleOfCool being a ninja]], has to behave as if he had saved the day, big time.
109* Buttercup spends the better part of '' WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "Nuthin' Special" trying to find a special power that Blossom and Bubbles can't duplicate. She eventually finds it in curling her tongue which she treats as something to celebrate.
110* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E19AstronautEllenOchoa Astronaut Ellen Ochoa]]", as shown in the beginning of the episode, Jet somehow came up with a convoluted yet awesome way to make lemons into lemonade.
111* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': There's nothing more horrifying than sitting in a box drawn in chalk on the ground in the playground. And you can't come out of it. And you're all alone. ''And no one can come into it to help you.''
112* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' has this as its modus operandi on two different levels. On the low end, you have main characters either punctuating normal actions like pouring cereal or setting up chairs by making up little songs or saying phrases. On the high end, you have roshambo matches that cause the unintentional summoning of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, and attempts to watch old UsefulNotes/LaserDisc movies ending in you and your friends being revealed as {{The Chosen One}}s to protect all forms of media from destruction by internet streaming services.
113* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' replaces such things as OminousLatinChanting with [[{{Narm}} embarrassingly exaggerated]] attempts at [[RuleOfCool being cool]], especially in regard to extreme sports (being the premise of the show). Or, as the show puts it, '''[[TotallyRadical sick]]'''.
114* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''
115** In the episode ''Teed Off'', what starts as a normal golf game between Mr. Bighead and his boss Mr. Dupette turns into this when the latter starts cheating by destroying the balls with flying pianos, and Heffer starts helping out Mr. Bighead with some cheating of his own. Eventually... well, you just have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BgH9YWt_Ps to see it for yourself]].
116* This trope is a pretty prevalent theme in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''. Through the eyes of the babies, the world is big and new, so even the most routine errands of their parents becomes an exciting adventure when they inevitably wander off to explore. Often, episodes will even start with what appears to be some kind of hostile landscape only to zoom out to reveal this to have been an extreme closeup of an everyday item, such as a river rapid actually being a bowl of cereal.
117* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' after the Scotsman has rescued Jack from a bunch of sirens they have a series of contests to decide who would be the one to row back. The contests culminated in a thumb wrestling match, complete with close-ups on their thumbs and faces all while in slow motion.
118* On ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'', one of the arcade game cabinets at the Frycade is literally titled "Do Your Taxes".
119* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
120** In the episode "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh," Bart and Lisa wage an epic war with the American Shipping Service, directly referencing key battle scenes from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', over the right to use complimentary shipping boxes to build a play-fort. Did we mention the large, fire-breathing dragon? Because there's a large, fire-breathing dragon.
121** Then there was the time Bart and Skinner tortured each other with foods they were allergic to tied to a stick, which turned into a lengthy battle across the city, riding on top of cars and ending in a factory for (inexplicably) both products, all set to "[[Film/ThePhantomMenace Duel of]] [[AwesomeMusic/StarWars the fates]]".
122* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
123** The episode "Good Times With Weapons". The boys playing around with weapons is turned awesome with an ArtShift and the use of {{shonen|Demographic}} fighting anime tropes, complete with an upbeat [[AnimeThemeSong makeshift J-pop song]] in the background.
124** The episode "D-Yikes!," a parody of ''[[Film/ThreeHundred 300]]'', features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67KXHqNNJks Mrs. Garrison making coffee]]. In that same episode, an unknown lesbian character takes a potato chip... and '''[[Manga/DeathNote eats]]''' it.
125** "Lice Capades" is worth a mention. "KEL-LAY!" And cutting to the lice being blown away and horribly dying -- while the kid who got the lice is taking a shower and washing his hair.
126** There's also the Cartoon Wars episodes. In one example, after Randy learns that an Islamic terrorist attack may result from a portrayal of Mohammed in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and suggests they wait and see what happens, he follows it up by saying, "If we're still alive in the morning, (ExtremeCloseup) then we'll know we're not dead."
127** "It'll be the end of the world! ... of Warcraft."
128*** In fact, the entirety of "Make Love, Not Warcraft" fits this trope by somehow making the quest to kill one high-level ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' {{griefer}} completely epic. Semi-justifiable, since this one player has somehow broken [=WoW=]'s [[PlayerVersusPlayer PvP]] rules, can kill ''Admins'', and seems to be determined to kill every player in the game so many times that they get extremely frustrated and never want to play again.
129---> (holding up a thumb drive) "Behold... the Sword of a Thousand Truths!"
130** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining"]] is an example of [[FauxHorrific Mundane Made Terrifying]] with its twisted parody of overblown RealityTV shows turning a lame, boring field trip into a literal life-or-death drama.
131** "It Hits the Fan" subverts it over the word shit; The entire country goes nuts with glee when shit is said on a television program without it being censored and also make memorabilia over the word. Kyle and Cartman see shit as just another word that doesn't mean much, but everyone else at school is stoked that they can say it whenever they want now. However, everyone saying shit en masse causes a plague that threatens the world unless they stop swearing so much.
132* How do make household chores like washing the dishes or folding laundry awesome? Make them the "special assignments" of a stuffed bear named ''WesternAnimation/SpecialAgentOso'' working for a secret agency, voiced by Sean Astin and equipped with all sorts of special spy gadgets.
133* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''
134** "Procrastination". As the name implies, [=SpongeBob=] grapples with his denial for hesitation in writing a 800-word essay. In one of his many time-wasting gimmicks, he spends an implied ludicrous amount of time and effort writing the "The" at the start of the paper, so the sequence ends up just looking "awesome" instead of being the HardWorkMontage it initially appears to be.
135** The opening scene of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie'' features a dramatic scene based around the "crisis" of a customer being given a Krabby Patty without cheese, complete with a slow-motion sequence of [=SpongeBob=] putting some cheese into the patty. It's a DreamSequence, but still...
136** Any time the Krabby Patty is brought to the audience’s attention by [=SpongeBob=], or at least when it focuses on him making krabby patties.
137** When a customer gets a Patty with jellyfish jelly added, he's so enthused that he bursts into an impromptu musical number: "Hey all you people, won't you ''LISTEN'' to meeee! I just had a sand-''wich''! No ordinary sand-''wich''!"
138*** "It's a sandwich filled with jellyfish jell-''[[RhymesOnADime yyyyyy!]]''" [[hottip:*:"WHO'S PLAYING SQIDWARD'S RECORDS AGAIN?"]]
139** In one of the "Legends of Bikini Bottom" episodes, [=SpongeBob=] is unconscious due to his Krabby Patty meter being empty. Mr. Krabs gets him to eat one. He then blasts up, explodes into pieces, then regenerates after all of them land together, and then...
140--> '''''[[ChewingTheScenery "OHHHHHHHHH, YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"]]'''''
141** Mermaid Man. "To the meatloaf! To the broccoli!"
142** And that very intense and edge-of-your-seat moment when Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy... playing checkers.
143** Everything involving the [[EnsembleDarkhorse Drastic Radicals]].
144** Early on in Season 9, it is revealed you can't make milkshakes in Bikini Bottom if you don't possess a milkshake-making license.
145** In "Tea At The Treedome", Sandy shows off her strength to [=SpongeBob=] by breaking a large rock with one hand. [=SpongeBob=] shows off to her by making a dynamic pose...and then making an armpit fart.
146* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
147** [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E28MessageReceived "Message Received"]]: Steven contains [[spoiler:Peridot]] with Earth's greatest trapping technology... '''THE CHILD SAFETY LOCK!'''
148** [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E23Reunited "Reunited"]] features [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative the most epic arm-wrestling match in the history of animation]]. Of course, most arm-wrestling matches aren't between [[spoiler:the [[MileLongShip miles-long flagship]] of an alien invader and what is effectively a {{Kaiju}}.]]
149* ''WesternAnimation/SweestersVirtualRoom'', a series where ''every'' episode is the BottleEpisode, has an instance of this when a simple ''thumb war'' [[SeriousBusiness becomes the most epic thing in the universe.]] Complete with a BigNo in SlowMotion at the end. It's exactly as cheesy as it sounds.
150* ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'' gives us epic tuna-can opening.
151* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick''[='s=] speeches.
152** Especially, "''Arthur!'' I'm doing ''laundry!''" which may very well be one of the defining moments for this trope.
153* Most Franchise/{{Transformers}}' {{kibble|sAndBits}} (the bits of alt-mode that don't have a purpose in robot mode) just hang off their bodies uselessly. Bulkhead of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', however, can [[http://www.tfwiki.info/wiki/Image:Bulkheadchair.jpg transform his kibble into a chair.]] This is considered by the fandom to be pretty awesome, especially since one of his "Activators" toy can actually do this.
154** Fire-Retardant Foam in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' can short circuit Cybertronians, and causes even the mighty Megatron to flee in terror. Ironhide can actually shoot the stuff from his arms, but never uses it to seize control or end the war.
155* ''Everything'' becomes this when ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' is around. Having a big belly gives you the ability to hypnotize people, getting a nickname involves slaying a dragon, trying to get into a locked truck leads to the truck becoming a monster and trying to destroy the world, and that's just the beginning.
156* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' has done this with its RunningGag of [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades on]] the anatomy of its characters, having an entire "serious" song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5uujMb_hbo about Mr. Lunt's (and only Mr. Lunt's) lack of a belly button]].
157* Doctor Orpheus, in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', has the ability to make his speech sound awesome ([[{{Leitmotif}} complete with dramatic music]]) -- regardless of what he's saying.
158-->"Do not be too hasty in entering that room -- I had ''TACO BELL'' for lunch!"\
159"Greetings, Pumpkin, I am at Mr. Venture's lab to ''right that which is wrong'' and '''TO REPAIR THE TORN CURTAIN OF TIME ITSELF!''' There are four puddings in the fridge. You may enjoy the contents of one of them. Dinner at six."\
160"Get me my...''BLUUUUE WINDBREAKER!''"\
161"Who wants...''PIZZZZA ROLLLLS!?''"\
162[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vlxIevVp4Y "Who is HECTOR MOLINA and WHY DO THEY KEEP SENDING ME HIS JUNK MAIL!?!?"]]
163** Monarch henchmen 21 and 24 manage to make [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfjj7Y9N27c putting on their uniforms and getting into a car]] [[note]] skip to 1:34 [[/note]] awesome by singing "Mars, Bringer Of War".
164*** Granted, doing that in perfect synch with each other while being out of earshot is pretty awesome.
165* From ''WesternAnimation/VoltronForce'' episode [[ADayInTheLimelight "The Hunkyard"]], we have an example of Hunk barbequing...ribs the size of a Buick on a customized grill the size of a church organ. His secret ingredient: jet fuel. Not only does he, predictably, burn such ribs, they launch into the air and through the ceiling, activating the Castle of Lion's missile defense system. Pidge's reaction is PRICELESS:
166--->'''Pidge''' (playing air guitar): GRISTLE DEFENSE SYSTEM! GRISTLE DEFENSE! GRISTLE DEFENSE! (Hunk joins.) BWAH BWAH!
167* In ''WesternAnimation/WeAreTheStrange'', a dying mook sees his own blood gushing out before its eyes, then a single drop of blood stops in mid-air, turns into a pixelated block, laughs at the him, turns back into a regular drop of blood and falls back down.
168* The ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' episode "Shush Ninjas" makes shushing noisy moviegoers into a journey of restoring peace and order.
169* A more meta example, but ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' fans like to take a particular line out of context to make it this. In context, it's the end of a rather tense conversation between Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/{{Batman}} about Superman [[ParentalNeglect ignoring his responsibilities to]] [[ComicBook/{{Superboy}} Conner]]. Out of context:
170--> '''Superman''': I'll take that pie to go. ''(dramatic background music)''
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